221 Movie Quotes about Music (+ Sound Clips) - page 17

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

Memorable quotes about music, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

161 What was your last job, playing square dances? -No. Funerals. -Well, would you mind rejoining the living? Goose it up a little. -We'll try.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar in Some Like It Hot

162 I must interrupt the dance music for a moment. I have an urgent message from police headquarters.

Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1933)

163 He plays the ukulele, he plays the saxophone. And the pretty babies just won't leave him alone.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

164 What is he humming? -It sounds like Moon River... Backwards.

Ted Wass as Sgt. Clifton Sleigh in Curse of the Pink Panther

165 Songs and dances? That might be interesting. Nobody cares about shootings anyway.

Dabney Coleman in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

166 So, he gets this piece of Pavarotti... -It was Paganini. -Whatever. -It was Paganini. -Look, this is my story, okay? -Then tell it right, Cob. Pavarotti is a tenor. Paganini was a composer.

Courtney B. Vance as Jonesy in The Hunt for Red October

167 Well, here's the organ. -Yeah, but where's the kook that was playing it? -Gone. But he left his music book behind.

Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake; Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

168 Ooh. I'd do anything for a solo. -Yes. I know.

Tim Curry as Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

169 Someone made a tape of something dying or something.

Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

170 When I was a boy and rock and roll came to east Germany, the communists said it was subversive. Maybe they were right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colonel John Matrix in Commando (1985)